Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
About the Book Series
This series examines contemporary developments and controversies within political theory and features cutting edge interventions into current debates.
Political Pluralism and the State: Beyond Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Marcel Wissenburg
July 15, 2016
The concept of a sovereign nation-state is a central part in many of the debates discussing the salient issues in political science today. Yet the debate on the state is fragmented and while the sub-disciplines within political science address the various possible consequences of different ...
The Political Philosophy of Judith Butler
1st Edition
By Birgit Schippers
May 31, 2016
Judith Butler can justifiably be described as one of the major critical thinkers of our time. While she is best-known for her interventions into feminist debates on gender, sexuality and feminist politics, her focus in recent years has broadened to encompass some of the most pertinent topics of ...
Civil Society and Democratic Theory: Alternative Voices
1st Edition
By Gideon Baker
April 27, 2016
This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice ...
Hegel and the Metaphysical Frontiers of Political Theory
1st Edition
By Eric Goodfield
April 27, 2016
For over one hundred and fifty years G.W.F. Hegel’s ghost has haunted theoretical understanding and practice. His opponents first, and later his defenders, have equally defined their programs against and with his. In this way Hegel’s political thought has both situated and displaced modern ...
Time, Memory, and the Politics of Contingency
1st Edition
By Smita A. Rahman
April 21, 2016
In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed. For too long political theory, with the exception of occasional phenomenological forays, has remained grounded in a particular experience of time as linear and sequential....
Kantian Theory and Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Andreas Follesdal, Reidar Maliks
December 01, 2015
Human rights and the courts and tribunals that protect them are increasingly part of our moral, legal, and political circumstances. The growing salience of human rights has recently brought the question of their philosophical foundation to the foreground. Theorists of human rights often assume that...
Rethinking the Politics of Absurdity: Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence
1st Edition
By Matthew H. Bowker
December 01, 2015
What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts and terrors of the mid- to late-twentieth century? Is it possible to understand absurdity not as a feature of events, but as a psychological posture ...
Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy
1st Edition
By William Smith
September 29, 2015
Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy. This book explores the ...
Untangling Heroism: Classical Philosophy and the Concept of the Hero
1st Edition
By Ari Kohen
August 19, 2015
The idea of heroism has become thoroughly muddled today. In contemporary society, any behavior that seems distinctly difficult or unusually impressive is classified as heroic: everyone from firefighters to foster fathers to freedom fighters are our heroes. But what motivates these people to act ...
Post-Ecologist Politics: Social Theory and the Abdication of the Ecologist Paradigm
1st Edition
By Ingolfur Blühdorn
August 07, 2015
Since the late 1980s, ecological thought and the European eco-movement have gone through a phase of fundamental transformation which has been widely acknowledged but not yet theorised in any satisfactory way. This important text questions why radical ecological criticism has had so little impact on...
Democracy and National Pluralism
1st Edition
Edited
By Ferran Requejo
July 20, 2015
How can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering ...
Class, States and International Relations: A critical appraisal of Robert Cox and neo-Gramscian theory
1st Edition
By Adrian Budd
July 16, 2015
This book provides an outline and a critique of neo-Gramscian international relations theory, from a Marxist perspective. Focusing on the pioneering work of Robert Cox, but also drawing on the wider neo-Gramscian literature, this book presents a comprehensive account of neo-Gramscian international...